in whom we were also chosen by lot, having been predestinated according to the purpose of him who works all things within us according to the counsel of his own will;

in whom you also, having heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, in whom, also having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,

You, who were dead in trespasses and in your sins,

among whom we all indeed at one time lived in the lusts of our flesh, doing the will of the flesh and of the thoughts, and we were by nature the children of wrath, like the rest also:

created life in us in Christ, who were dead in trespasses, by grace you have been saved,

Therefore remember, that when you were Gentiles in the flesh, called Uncircumcision by that which is called Circumcision, made in the flesh with hands;

because you were at that time without Christ, being alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers of the covenants of the promise, having no hope and being atheists in the world.

And having come he preached the gospel of peace to you, who were far away, and peace to them who were nigh:

And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed unto the day of redemption.

For at one time ye were darkness, but now ye are light in the Lord: walk about as children of the light,